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Questioningpostmodernist critiqueof biol
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"Ellenbaum, Charles O." <[log in to unmask]>
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FYI
Chuck Ellenbaum ><>
College of DuPage
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137  USA
>>>>Academe Today's DAILY REPORT
for subscribers of The Chronicle of Higher Education
Here are news bulletins from The Chronicle of Higher Education
for Tuesday, June 3.
MAGAZINES & JOURNALS
A glance at the June 9 issue of "The Nation":
Questioning the postmodernist critique of biology
 
The trend in anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies to
dismiss the notion that human beings share certain biologically
based commonalities has created a dangerous climate of
intolerance in academe, write Barbara Ehrenreich, an author, and
Janet McIntosh, a graduate student at the University of
Michigan. In "The New Creationism," they compare such assertions
of postmodernist and other leftist "antibiologists" to the
theories of creationists. Some postmodernist thinkers, they
write, portray evolutionary theory as "nothing more than a
sexist and racist storyline created by Western white men." The
problem with that approach, the authors say, is that it not only
effaces the possibility that human beings have anything in
common but also attempts to silence efforts to explore that
domain. "Hence we have gone, in the space of a decade or two,
from what began as healthy skepticism about the misuses of
biology to a new form of dogma," they write. (The magazine may
be found at your library or
newsstand.)<<<<
 
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